#daniel o'malley

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Group photos with the authors at Supanova Melbourne!

From left to right: T. Kingfisher, Daniel O'Malley, Richard Swan, Maria Lewis, Lynette Noni and Luke Arnold

Photo by Brittany Mackay

Credits to Supanova Melbourne Facebook

[abookishidentity]

Books I recently checked out of the library

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske- I read A Marvelous Light and I thought it was pretty damn good. I decided to check out the two other books because I like the world building so much.

A Power Unbound by Freya Marske- Might as well get the third book as well. I was going to wait until I read more of my reading list but I didn't want to wait.

A Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C. M. Waggoner- This book seemed interesting to me. However I didn't realize this was a sequel until just now so I can't really read it. i need to research books more. The first book isn't at my local library but it's at a different library so at least theres that.

Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley- This is the sequel to The Rook which I liked but I wasn't going to continue. After thinking about it I decided I would read it.

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“Do we know for sure he’s dead?” asked the marine biologist. They both looked at Odette. “I’m fairly certain,” she said. “He’s cold, has no discernible pulse, and smells of rotting meat.” “I dated someone like that once,” remarked Codman. “A graduate student, a medieval historian.”

Daniel O’Malley, Stiletto

[readingaccountability]

march roundup!

since my last post i have finished:

blitz - daniel o'malley

goliath - tochi onyebuchi

just like home - sarah gailey

the three-body problem - cixin liu

the change - kirsten miller

my government means to kill me - rasheed newson

when we were magic - sarah gailey

the all-consuming world - kassandra khaw

upgrade - blake crouch

and i finished upgrade last night so nothing is in progress at the moment! <3

[caribeandthebooks]

December 2024 Reading Wrap Up

I read 3 books and got 3 kindle challenge achievements this month!

Now let's look at the breakdown :)

Reading Challenge Progress: I committed to reading 30 books in 2024 and I've finally done it!

Top Genre read as at December 2024: Fantasy

My first read for December and Book #28 was Blitz by Daniel O'Malley Rating: 2/5

This was an okay read because I liked the other books. Blitz really should have been separate books. The segues felt like I was reading unfiltered racing thoughts so if that's your thing, have at it! It was an okay read but I'm not inspired to read more from this series.

Blitz helped me obtain the Autumn's Fables achievement in the 2024 Year End Kindle Challenge.

I also obtained the Nom de Plume achievement in the 2024 Year End Kindle Challenge by following M.L. Wang!

Book #29 was Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi Rating: 3.5/5

I liked this book, took me a while to get into it though which is why I couldn't go all the way to 4 stars. It had me asking "Girl, what do you mean?" so many times! I liked that it didn't feel like western culture but Africa. It was an enjoyable read and I'm glad it didn't flesh out to be a black woman struggle story. I definitely would not want to be in her shoes but she did that.

Goodreads introduced reading challenges and this read was definitely influenced by that. This book is set in Mali and helped with my read around the world challenge.

Masquerade helped me obtain the Best of 2024 achievement in the 2024 Year End Kindle Challenge & the Choice Awards achievement in the Goodreads Reading Challenge Beta.

Book #30 was The Apocrypha. Rating: 3/5

I read the whole Bible last year, figure I'd also see what's up in the Directors Cut, if you will.

The Apocrypha helped me complete the Diamond Reader Challenge in the Goodreads Reading Challenge Beta.

I am very proud of myself for sticking to my reading goal for 2024 and making it here. It got a bit scary for a sec but I did it!

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And that's it!

Now for a two week break to reset my Kindle streak and then I start fresh in 2025! See you there!

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Book recommendation for 2024

Back during the shutdown, I found myself desperate for a new book or two or ten but unable to go to my favorite bookstore and spend a day exploring. At wit's end, I searched online for "fiction novel fantasy horror funny mystery" all at once. I wasn't actually expecting a single book to fit all those needs, but The Rook by Daniel O’Malley did exactly that. I enjoyed it so much, I ended up gifting it to three different people that year.

Bonus if you enjoy it: it is the first in a triology-of-sorts.

[gollancz]

@feltpool thank you for enabling me.

I'm delighted to announce that we have acquired the Checquy Files series by Daniel O'Malley, and will be reissuing the first two titles - THE ROOK and STILETTO - with new covers, alongside the first UK releases of books three and four, BLITZ and ROYAL GAMBIT, in summer 2025.

I've long been a huge fan of these books and used to cite them as the sort of book I wanted from agents, so you'd better bet that I made myself UNBEARABLE until I got my grubby mits on them.

THE ROOK (or, my unofficial subtitle, The Adventures of Myfanwy Thomas: Administrator Extraordinaire) won the 2012 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the moral of the story is you can win the day as long as you always keep the receipts. (no, seriously).

The Checquy Files are each stand-alone books within the same amazing world, following a secret organisation that is responsible for anyone with supernatural powers within the UK. They are chaotic, funny, smart and blend thriller and fantasy with wonderfully bizarre powers. It's like... if people in the X-Men didn't always have useful mutations. Or if The Umbrella Academy was a national initiative.

Genuinely, if you love The Umbrella Academy, you will probably love these.

You might recognise the title - THE ROOK was made into a TV series by Starz starring Adrian Lester and Jolie Richardson, but don't worry about spoilers, it went a very different way. (Although, frankly, surprised Tumblr wasn't all over the sex scene with Gestalt, a single consciousness shared between four bodies.)

ANYWAY! Here's the blurb for THE ROOK, you can pre-order our editions... soon. And they're GREAT.

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It's the middle of the night.

It's pouring with rain.

You've woken up in the middle of a field, alone, surrounded by dead bodies.

And you have no idea who you are.

Myfanwy Thomas doesn't know what has happened to her. All she has is a collection of letters, written by her past self, to guide her through the improbable world in which she suddenly finds herself. They contain information - on her life, on the improbable powers she has at her fingertips, and on the mysterious organisation she works for.

They also contain a warning: someone is trying to kill you. Desperately trying not to be discovered, Myfanwy has to navigate the rigours of her life and job, while trying to find out which of the faces closest to her past self betrayed her . . .

. . . before they try again.

It's been a week since I did a cover reveal. Wanna see some more?

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Arctic Monkeys in Pistoia, July 2014

By Daniele Cavalli

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Sharpe + Text Post (Part 22)

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More from Luke Arnold with other authors at Supanova Gold Coast!

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I Saw The TV Glow (2024)

Director - Jane Schoenbrun, Cinematography - Eric K. Yue

"Soon, you won't remember anything. Your real name, your superpowers, you won't even remember that you're dying."

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“I can summon and command wasps,” said Pawn Harriet Collinge, whom Odette suspected of being a little bit tipsy. “Roger disrupts mathematics, and Louis can draw wasps to him.” “Very cool,” said Odette. “Wait, so you can both do things with wasps? Are you two related?” “Oh, no,” said Louis. “Sorry, she does the thing with insects. I can attract white Anglo-Saxon Protestants.”

Daniel O’Malley, Stiletto

[readingaccountability]

am back and didnt really stop reading, just stopped posting!

general updates:

i surpassed my 2022 reading goal of 75 books!!! my total ended up being 81

sticking to the same 75 goal for this year since it felt really comfy - good balance between keeping me focused and not making me read uncomfortably fast

reviews are no longer going to be under a readmore because to be honest i started doing that back when i had a lot more to say, lol

now, a current snapshot from last update post to now

read during the end of 2022:

dracula - bram stoker

interview with the vampire - anne rice

the monster of elendhaven - jennifer giesbrecht

the death of jane lawrence - caitlin starling

my sister, the serial killer - oyinkan braithwaite

blood oath - christopher farnsworth

who is vera kelly? - rosalie knect

peaces - helen oyeyemi

the charmed wife - olga grushin

sleep donation - karen russell

providence - matt barry

deformations - sasha dugdale

the great mistake - jonathan lee

hummingbird salamander - jeff vandermeer

lexicon - max barry

lavender house - lev ac rosen

mr penumbras 24 hour bookstore - robin sloan

the monsters we defy - leslye penelope

sourdough - robin sloan

the suitcase clone - robin sloan

a restless truth - freya marske

the starless sea - erin morgenstern

black powder war - naomi novik

read since the beginning of 2023:

the atlas six - olivie blake

the atlas paradox - olivie blake

the big ship at the end of the universe - alex white

hell bent - leigh bardugo

how high we go in the dark - sequoia nagamatsu

am reading:

blitz - daniel o'malley

goliath - tochi onyebuchi

[caribeandthebooks]

The Rook by Daniel O'Malley

Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction, Adult Fiction, Paranormal/Supernatural

Setting: England

Description: "The body you are wearing used to be mine." So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves...Read more on Goodreads/Storygraph

Content Warning information can be found via the above Storygraph link.